Wednesday 20 September 2017 The big three Homes& London Design Festival’s top shows Property Page 14 HOMES UNDER £500K NEAR TOP SCHOOLS P6 UMBRIA P10 SERVICE CHARGE RIP-OFFS P11 SPOTLIGHT ON BRIXTON P34 Aldgate Europe’s hottest new address 10,000 new homes 20,000 new jobs Seven new squares Super-fast broadband — and a gardening club Page 4 MICKEY LEE/TAP Don’t miss our 12-page Shared Ownership guide in tomorrow’s paper 2 WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2017 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property | News Trophy home of £259,000: a new-build one-bedroom flat at Langley £125,000 (guide): Purple bricks has a studio flat the week Square, Dartford. Through Hastings (020 8012 3341) in Goodmayes Lane, Ilford (0121 396 0867) Luxurious rooms with a Latest hotspots fabulous view £3.5 million: what better way to admire your weekend yacht than from your mansion overlooking pretty and bargain buys Chichester Harbour, West come party season — along Sussex? Brightwater, a with a study and snug at striking new coastal home, ground level. A spiral VEN in London’s faltering enjoys such a setting staircase framed by floor-to- property market there are complete with gardens of ceiling windows takes centre still some places dramatically half an acre that stretch stage and leads up to a outperforming the rest — reg- down to the water’s edge master bedroom suite with istering price growth of and a high-spec, airy interior his-and-hers bathrooms, and Ealmost 30 per cent in a single year. designed to soak up the four more guest bedrooms The new data from JLL and Right- beautiful views from every all with access to a glass move published today also highlights angle. Walnut floors run wraparound balcony and the best areas for first-time buyers — through open-plan lounge/ those stunning views. where you can still buy a London flat dining and bespoke kitchen Through Jackson Stops for less than £200,000. areas — perfect to showcase (01243 786316). There are seven London postcodes with current growth of at least 20 per cent, led by Dartford, where asking Lifechanger prices have grown by 29.5 per cent in £400,000: a pay from £320,000 and £400,000 for the past year, to an average price of one-bedroom flat a period one-bedroom flat. of the week £213,483 for a one-bedroom flat. in hotly tipped An increase in the number of new- Next come Uxbridge, Harrow and Camberwell, for build flats is part of the reason prices A cottage and Carshalton, which have all seen price sale in Vicarage in most of the top areas have increased. growth of 22 to 24 per cent on one-bed- Grove, SE5. MacDougall’s top tip is Camberwell, chapel where room flats in the past year. Through haart which he says has been historically Other locations with strong growth (020 8012 1481) undervalued for a Zone 2 location. you can make identified today include Camberwell, Meanwhile the JLL and Rightmove sweet music West Wickham (just east of Croydon) report also reveals the least expensive and Southall. Here starter flats have starter flat locations but they are a long risen about 21 per cent year on year. commute away. London’s most pocket- £850,000: in the village of “Typically the buyer will be a first- friendly postcodes are South Ockendon, Coton, just a few miles from time buyer, and the bank of mum and Dagenham, and Erith, where average Cambridge, this divine dad is our favourite lender,” said Brett asking prices for a one-bedroom flat start former baptist chapel might MacDougall, a partner at Hunters at just under £146,000. Other budget just be the answer to your estate agent in Camberwell. locations include Romford (£170,000) prayers. 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Plus, a frow that included the relentlessly cool FKA upmarket Trousdale neighbourhood. ZILLOW Twigs and Kate Moss’s model sister Lottie. The 5,386sq ft home, with five The fashion house is clearly having a London moment as bedrooms and six bathrooms, was it has quietly launched its first European residential previously owned by OneRepublic development collaboration here, kitting out AYKON lead singer Ryan Tedder. It has an London One tower at Nine Elms with Versace Home. extravagant outdoor entertainment Versace Towers must be the most fashionable new block area with a large swimming pool and in town. From gold kitchens and Italian marble bathrooms a garden with a fire pit. to a gym with a punchbag dressed in Armani fabric, these The interiors have a laid-back luxury apartments ooze the high glamour Donatella epitomises. California feel. Crawford’s holiday There is a huge yellow slide in a multi-coloured home in Mexico and Manhattan playroom with views overlooking the city skyline, plus apartment have similar boho style. swimming pool, Jacuzzi, cinema and winter gardens. The The supermodel regularly mixes up stylish communal rooftop lounge has statement chairs her property portfolio and recently sporting the famous Medusa head logo. sold another mansion in Malibu for For sale with Portico, a one-bedroom will set you $60 million (£44.4 million). GETTY back around £1.15 million. GETTY DDG By Amira Hashish Rooms at the top Got some gossip? Tweet @amiranews for Matt Damon É MATT Damon is rumoured to be buying the most expensive home in Millen could cut it in a Georgian mansion Brooklyn. The Jason Bourne actor (above with wife Luciana Barroso) is ÉDESIGNER Karen Millen, inset, may thought to be buying a six-bedroom have had to borrow £100 to get her penthouse on top of the former fashion empire off the ground back in Standish Arms Hotel in Brooklyn 1981 but look where it got her just Heights, listed at $16.64 million seven years later. From 1988 to 2000 (£12.2 million). her home was this this glorious six- If he pays the asking price, the sale bedroom Georgian mansion would beat that of a townhouse at 177 (right) in Wateringbury, Kent,, Pacific Street, which sold for now for sale for £1.45 million $15.5 million (£11.4 million) in 2015. through Sotheby’s It’s not the first time the A-lister has International Realty. considered paying big bucks for a All her first shops were family home. He and his wife almost in nearby Kent towns bought nearby Low Mansion, once and the mansion’s minutes from on the market for £29.5 million. master bedroom doubled Victoria. The penthouse at The Standish as her cutting room. Millen’s huge antique comes with its own private outdoor Once owned by a rear mmirrori is still in the hall space and fitness centre and was admiral, Gransden is set in theh anddh her Louis XIV-style sofa is converted from a 1903 hotel once Weald countryside and is just 55 still to be seen in the sitting room.